--On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 17:30:30 +0100 Nico de Jong
<nico_at_farumdata.dk> wrote:
> On the longer term, tapes must be rewritten every 2nd or 3rd year, in
> order to avoid crosstalk between the layers.
> Now let's see who disagrees with me ....
Not disagreeing with most of it, though I was taught only that it was
necessary to wind and rewind tapes every few years to avoid the
crosstalk -- the layers end up with slightly different parts next to
each other, so it wasn't necessary to rewrite them. I've never
rewritten tapes, and I have distribution tapes that haven't been
rewritten in 20 years, but read fine. YMMV.
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Pete Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York, UK
Received on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 04:02:40 GMT